Washington - Voting appears to be going smoothly as millions of Americans head to the polls on the final day to cast their ballots in the country's midterm elections, despite heightened concerns about violence and other potential interference.
Officials from multiple U.S. agencies, along with state and local election officials, have been preparing to ward off any number of potential problems, from cyberattacks or altercations to misinformation that sends voters to the wrong polling places.
But aside from what they describe as usual or expected technical glitches, the first few hours of voting have been incident free.
'I want to be clear. We continue to see no specific or credible threat to disrupt the election infrastructure,' a senior official with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told reporters Tuesday during a scheduled briefing.
The official, briefing on the condition of anonymity under ground rules established by CISA, said the agency has 'high confidence' in the security and resilience of the country's election systems due to extensive preparation for any number of contingencies.
'We do not have any attributed malicious cyber activity or knowledge and infrastructure as of yet,' the CISA official added, describing the cyber threats to the election as 'quieter [than in the 2020 elections], although not nonexistent.'
Despite the positive early assessment, U.S. voters have likewise been bracing for potential problems.
According to a recent Economist/YouGov poll, just over half of Americans (51%) say violence at polling places is somewhat or very likely.
The poll, which surveyed 1,500 adults between October 29 and November 1, found just as many (51%) believe there will be ..
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